Strong Female Character

Strong Female Character

What song would Dorothy Gale be singing at age 39 if she were still living with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry? What kinds of investigations was Marge Gunderson up to at age 10? Just a couple of the questions explored in the musical-theater-meets-pop-culture mashup, “Strong Female Character”!

Maine native, ex-New-Yorker, and writer/composer Marianne Pillsbury’s semi-autobiographical pop-rock musical, Depression: The Musical, was selected as a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2008, had a staged reading at PortFringe in 2013, and was workshopped at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2014. www.mariannepillsbury.com